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Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Nov. 26 2006, 11:42 Everytime i hear this album i get in a special mood. What did Mike with this album? There is something very strange with it. Do anybody knows hes sales with this? The album have never been my favorite but i love it anyway he he. About the b-side on Vinyl. I love Woodhenge, and the strangest is, it fits into the album too. In real i got another feeling of the album when woodhenge starts, but this is a just a "joke", the rare, mystic bells song gives you even more wacko vocals songs and guitar playing in such cool way in Punkadiddle. (my favorite song live) It's like a introductions with scary things and behind the doors after you get clowns and funny tunes he he.. First time i ever heard Platinum i never liked the trompet sounds in the Platinum parts, and i even get some problems with it those days. (i mean part 3) My opinion about Mike and trompet sounds; stay away.. But the rest of this funny 4 part song is funny, happy, a bit ghostly and rare. Platinum is something, and it stands alone, in a funny way :o -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

torbenyj Group: Members Posts: 377 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: Nov. 26 2006, 17:03 the first time I heard platinum, my player was on 45, I I thougt - the first side was quickly done Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1759 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Nov. 26 2006, 17:29 The "Charleston" part must have made you wonder...? -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Nov. 26 2006, 21:00 Quote (torbenyj @ Nov. 26 2006, 23:03) the first time I heard platinum, my player was on 45, I I thougt - the first side was quickly done hahahaha well how much beer had you taken torben?     -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Morti Group: Members Posts: 103 Joined: April 2006 Posted: Nov. 27 2006, 04:31 Quote (torbenyj @ Nov. 26 2006, 17:03) the first time I heard platinum, my player was on 45, I I thougt - the first side was quickly done Heh, excellent. I tried that recently, I think it sounds kinda neat. :-P I must confess, though, the first time I heard Platinum was in Ogg Vorbis format. -------------- The ear worm became the synonym for the commercial side of MIKE OLDFIELD. Back to top

Bill Bobaggins Group: Members Posts: 477 Joined: June 2005 Posted: Nov. 27 2006, 09:31 I adore Platinum.  All of it.  It is very clever and is my favorite music to jog to. -------------- Speak friend and enter. Back to top

torbenyj Group: Members Posts: 377 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: Nov. 27 2006, 11:31 [QUOTE]how much beer had you taken torben? Iwas 14, so a lot - not true Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Nov. 27 2006, 14:17 should i really belive a danish about not taken beer?? -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Ray Group: Members Posts: 857 Joined: Jan. 2000 Posted: Nov. 27 2006, 14:19 Quote (torbenyj @ Nov. 27 2006, 16:31) [QUOTE]how much beer had you taken torben? Iwas 14, so a lot - not true And I thought Scandinavians didnt drink! R -------------- Looking out over the harbour in Peel....... Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Nov. 27 2006, 14:21 not norwegian people, just ask sweden   -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Ray Group: Members Posts: 857 Joined: Jan. 2000 Posted: Nov. 27 2006, 14:22 OK- now one on topic.....  I was ....er about 17 and I first heard it about 40minutes after I bought it the day it was released.  Now that would be some time in 1980 or so.  when Albums cost about £4. It was rather good and I didnt stop litenting to it until ......ohhh... about last Saturday. b   Ray -------------- Looking out over the harbour in Peel....... Back to top

Alan D Group: Members Posts: 3670 Joined: Aug. 2004 Posted: Nov. 27 2006, 17:24 When Platinum first came out, I'd been soaking in Mike for about a year - listening to TB, Ommadawn, Hergest Ridge and Incantations with the lights out, following every note. I thought the guy was a genius. Platinum was a real shock. I gave it the same treatment, listening over and over, wondering what had drawn him back to that 1940's kind of doobopshibop stuff, and what exactly he hoped to do with it. I remember being so puzzled - focusing tight on the idea that although I wasn't sure I liked it all that much, something profound must be going on! These days ... I like it more than then. Not as one of his greatest albums, but as one of his most innovative and likeable. And the last part of the Platinum suite itself is sheer genius. Back to top

Ray Group: Members Posts: 857 Joined: Jan. 2000 Posted: Nov. 27 2006, 19:02 Yes - Perhaps I didnt mention that I only found the B'side last friday.  The B side I did find unusual and listened mostly to the Platinum side.  But isnt the cover picture Cool!!! Ray -------------- Looking out over the harbour in Peel....... Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Nov. 27 2006, 19:56 not a good sign when the cover and picture is better then the music??   i find it very funny and out of the way Mike.. He do it totally up side down from Incantations and must have been a very brave step to take. I readed one rewiew; he said; It may be that I've missed the point (unlikely), but "Platinum" seems entirely useless. It doesn't function as entertainment, dance music, sex music or drug music, though it might go well with a mail-order meditation course. I find it depressing -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Nov. 28 2006, 14:09 Quote It doesn't function as entertainment, dance music, sex music or drug music What about music music? -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

TomX01 Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: Nov. 2006 Posted: Nov. 29 2006, 08:13 I bought Platinum originally on the strength of the live version on The Complete. hated it originally, it had this crappy track called Sally where he was singing through a vocoder. Sold it for 2 pounds. Can you say Doh! Later on when I bought it on CD I got to love it, the transition between 1&2 is worth the dough itself. Tom Back to top

Airborne Group: Members Posts: 192 Joined: Sep. 2006 Posted: Nov. 29 2006, 14:40 Platinum is not that unusual if you put it in context. Mike had recently undergone Exegesis and this was the first full album he did after the course. He had already taken up flying and was learning to fly helicopters by this time. The BBC linked up the title track with Mike starting a helicopter and it then lifting off the ground - it worked extremely well. Mike said the music was to symbolise freedom and the thrill that flying gave him. Having just done his first successful concert series and with the Punk revolution slowly ebbing we get Punkadiddle. One of the engineers for the concerts happened to work for Philip Glass so there is a reworking of one of his themes. He had recently got together with Sally Cooper so there is a love song of sorts - he wanted to write one for this album. He had also visited the USA for the first time so this might have been an influence for the Charleston section. Mike had taken to the dance floor in a disco or two and discovered he liked the experience - so we get I've Got Rhythm tagged on the end. Obviously some of the tracks were designed with the voice of newly discovered Wendy Roberts in mind. The only alien track for me is Woodhenge which was culled from the pre-Exegisis film called Reflection. I was so much in a hurry to hear the album on release that in the rush to get the disc on the turntable I scratched the first few grooves!! Thankfully you can now get CDs but not back in 1979. Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Nov. 30 2006, 12:39 I just love Platinum. It still sounds fresh, positive and it really shines. It always lifts my spirits. I agree it did seem quite a radical change after the masterpieces, TB,HR O & Incantations, but why not? I actually think it sometimes gets underrated because of what went before, and that makes me sad. I remember so well how I felt when I opened it that Christmas morning! It was, and is, the best thing and I would very much like a bit more in the same vein:) -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

Chicular Group: Members Posts: 240 Joined: Sep. 2004 Posted: Dec. 06 2006, 10:05 I think Platinum is a great album.  I enjoy all of the tracks, but most of all Punkadiddle. Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1545 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: Dec. 06 2006, 13:15 a real big change after the first 4 albums. bit modern for that time, I think. I like it more now than I did 5 years ago. It's an album you have to get used to. I really love it now. I don't even mind the trumpet bit!!!!!   -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

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